Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Put variety in white.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

Regret is a lifestyle disease of equity investing.

Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

Your true world is your state of consciousness and awareness where your minds dwells and dances.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches.

Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.